My living room is graced by this original artwork by Charles R. Knight, the foremost restorer of prehistoric life from the late 1800s through middle 1950s.
Original artwork by Charles R. Knight, including: Oil painting done for a book he authored, Prehistoric Man, the Great Adventurer (1949); chart showing various kinds of dinosaurs, drawn by Knght for his book Before the Dawn of History, a book (1935). of whch I have a signed copy; a drawing of the “ostrich-like’ Struthiomimus (below), first published in my book The Dinosaur Dictionary; and an unpublished drawing of the chimera pelycosaur “Naosaurus.”
Knight’s “Drawings of Dinosaurs” chart (left) and as it appeared in Bef0re the Dawn of History (below).
This original “Naosaurus” drawing (left) was done by Knight based upon his earlier sculpture of the same creature.
Old American Museum of Natural History postcard of “The Naosaurus.”
This 1950s postcard (below) was issued by the American Museum of Natural History reproducing a painting made by Knight in 1897 depicting Dimetrodon (foreground) and “Naosaurus” (background).
Knight’s often reproduced (and copied) artwork has been reproduced numerous times on souvenir postcards, most of them from museums where his work is preserved and curated. Here (below left) is an example from The Field Museum, reproducing one of my favorite Knight paintings, his life restoration of “The Great Irish Deer” Megaloceros.
Calendars reproducing artwork by Charles R. Knight.
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